Dilemma re: adding another passenger to room

[cmarkovsky]

Hi all and thanks in advance. We (4 of us) are sailing in the Getaway in February in the Haven 2 bedroom suite. My mother is able to join us so I tried to add her via our guy at Casino at Sea. Our room's capacity is 5 (maybe 6). He informed us that the coast guard puts a cap on the amount of people that can be on the boat due to lifeboats and we can't add her.

 

Ever run into this? We need her to be able to access the Haven (so she can hang with the kids) so an inside isn't going to work - and is super expensive compared to an add on.

 

Help! She has her tickets and we were all excited to have her join us.

 

Catherine

[garycarla]

Yes, there are situations where they have "bedding capacity", but not "lifeboat capacity".

 

I would keep calling. Someone else may move to another section of the ship and open up a "space".

 

Also, I am not educated on the GA, but the other ships have the same 2 BR suites in other sections of the ship.

[mjkacmom]

They can't add her, because even though there is room in the suite, there isn't room in the lifeboat. I'm sure people face this a lot, adding people close to sailing. Once it's full, it's full.

[cmarkovsky]

The thing that makes me nuts is that it isn't full. There are three 2 bedrooms still open among many other cabins.

[SeaShark]

The thing that makes me nuts is that it isn't full. There are three 2 bedrooms still open among many other cabins.

 

While the ship may not seem full to you, the lifeboat for your section may indeed be full.

 

 

If you are seeing other rooms available, that is because they are in a different lifeboat section. You could always inquire about changing your cabin to one of those instead of trying to add 1 more person to your existing location.

[RuthlessBoss]

How can she have a ticket and no cabin? What am I missing here?

[buckeye82]

I'm assuming transportation to and from OP's house or cruise port city.

 

 

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[BecT]

We had a situation similar to this one last year and were able to get suite privileges granted for my brother even though he was in an oceanview. I was told that this was a very unusual privilege to be granted and it does not happen very often. I will note that whenever my brother had sailed with us in the past, we were always in a suite together. I don't know if that played a part in it or not.

[cmdchiefthom]

I'd call NCL reservations, tell them your reservation is a CAS booking, but your CAS guy can't help. Explain the situation and see what they can suggest to resolve the problem. The should be able to see every vacant bed and lifeboat seat and come up with something, and they work on weekends.;) Good luck!!!

[cmarkovsky]

Thank you all for the help! Yes, tickets are airplane tickets. I will try the NCL route - great idea CMDChief.

[sjbdtz]

The thing that makes me nuts is that it isn't full. There are three 2 bedrooms still open among many other cabins.

 

 

The reason the other 3 x 2-bedrooms are open, may be because they are lifeboat capacity already and can't sell those.

 

 

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